Is it normal the vastness of the universe freaks me out?

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  • BLAh81
    10 years ago | pl

    "there are more stars in the heavens than EVERY GRAIN OF SAND on the planet"

    Yes, I've heard that too many times. It's not necessarily that I don't believe it, but I do wonder how people ever came to know this. Could you perhaps tell me? I'd really like to know.

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    • sYki
      10 years ago | pl

      They don't really know this, its just an estimate from taking a section of sky and using powerful telescopes and counting the stars in the area as deep as they can. Then they multiply that number by the number of sections in the sky...to put it bluntly.

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